Definition of "water-engine" [water-engine]

• An engine to raise water; also, an engine propelled by water. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Shutter, the organist of Carisbury Cathedral, has just had a water-engine put in, and, now we've got our own new waterworks at"
• "It was strange, there was no sound of music; there was no one playing; there was only the intolerably monotonous booming of a single pedal-note, with an occasional muffled thud when the water-engine turned spasmodically to replenish the emptying bellows."
• "And then there came into his mind another thought: he would go to the church, the water-engine should blow for him, and he would play himself sober."